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Nationality
  
American

Known for
  
Typography

Role
  
Artist

Name
  
Tommy Thompson


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Born
  
1906
Blue Point, New York

Died
  
1967, New York City, New York, United States

Books
  
The Script Letter: Its Form, Construction, and Application, Script Letter: Its Form, Construction and Application

Notable work
  
Thompson Quill Script

Samuel Winfield "Tommy" Thompson (1906–1967) was an American calligrapher, graphic artist and typeface designer. He was born Blue Point, New York. In 1944 he became the first designer to earn royalties for a type design, from Photo Lettering Inc. for his Thompson Quill Script. Previously, designers had worked in house for foundries or had sold the rights to their faces outright. He maintained a studio in Norwalk, Connecticut and was the author of several books on type and lettering.

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Typefaces

Thompson designed all of these foundry types:

  • Post Headletter (1943, Monotype), privately cast for the Saturday Evening Post.
  • Collier Heading (1946, Monotype), privately cast for Collier's Magazine.
  • Mademoiselle (1953, Baltimore Type Foundry), matrices cut by Herman Schnorr. Originally cast for Mademoiselle Magazine, but later offered for general sale.
  • Baltimore Script (1955, Baltimore Type Foundry), matrices cut by George Battee.
  • Additional weights of Futura for Intertype (1950s).
  • Thompson Quill Script (1953, American Type Founders), this was also made available for phototypesetting by Photo Lettering Inc..

    • Books

  • The script letter; its form, construction and application, New York, The Studio Publications Inc., 1939.
  • The ABC Of Our Alphabet, 1945.
  • How to render roman letter forms. A pattern for understanding and drawing roman letters and other styles of lettering and type faces related to them, New York, American Studio Books, 1946.
  • Basic layout design; a pattern for understanding the basic motifs in design and how to apply them to graphic art problems, New York, Studio Publications, in association with Crowell, c. 1950.

    • References

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